DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is an EU regulation that requires financial entities and their critical ICT suppliers to implement operational resilience frameworks covering ICT risk management, resilience testing, incident reporting, and third-party oversight. DORA entered into force in January 2025, with supervisory review beginning in January 2026.
DORA makes resilience a board-level operational issue, not just an IT issue. It expects organizations to show that critical digital services can continue under stress and that resilience testing produces actual management action.
For CISOs, BC/DR leaders, and GRC teams, that means resilience programs must become measurable, documented, and repeatable—not just occasional exercises run for audit season.
DORA is explicit about resilience testing, management review, third-party oversight, and remediation. It is part of a broader trend in which regulators want proof that organizations can withstand disruption, not simply policies asserting they will.
Scenario-based exercises are particularly useful because they test cross-functional decision-making, which is often where operational resilience succeeds or fails in real incidents.
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That means scenario records, role participation, after-action reports, and action tracking can all be packaged as evidence instead of recreated manually after the fact.
DORA applies to EU financial entities and also creates oversight implications for certain critical ICT providers serving them.
DORA entered into force in January 2025, with supervisory review beginning in January 2026.
They are an important part of scenario-based resilience testing, though some organizations may also need more advanced testing depending on scope and risk profile.
At a minimum, organizations need records of testing, documented findings, management review, and tracked remediation actions.
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